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Comment from the website source code: // sometimes when the user reloads the document Netscape 3.01 does not trigger the onLoad event Netscape 3.01 was released in 1996 The JavaScript code is also commented out, in case t
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Imagine a neural network who could design memes/songs by directly measuring a bunch of test subject brains. Kind of like a focus group. A short story even asked the question, could you engineer a meme/song so powerful that it coul
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Because the alternative is paying. Do you want to pay for all the hundred sites you visit in a year?
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Apparently 95% of "bit flipping cosmic rays" are neutrons: > At the Earth's surface approximately 95% of the particles capable of causing soft errors are energetic neutrons with the remainder composed of protons and pions
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But then you wouldn't have features like this one, which requires merging multiple close in time images. Since the professional camera makers assume that all post-processing will happen on a computer at a later time, they don't wo
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Canon/Nikon should put an Android phone into their cameras. You could get these kind of features/easy instagramming/connection capabilities starting from a much higher photo quality base. Keep their native interface, but also
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If you throw a match with intention and it causes a fire, you will go to prison. If they neglected fire warnings, there should be some responsability.
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How dangerous are these lasers? If hundreds of cars will have them, your eyes will be scanned multiple times per day.
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It's comming. The left in the west is demanding laws to ban anonymous social media posting, to stop online abuse. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/angela-rayner...
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If all the apple shops in the world will get that tool, you can assume anybody capable of a hardware backdoor will also have access to it and a way to use it without raising flags (presumably the tool will phone back home for authorization)
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> Modern warfare grants (perceived) first-strike capability to almost any state What are you talking about? Only 9 states have nuclear weapons. Of them, only 5 have any significant number.
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> Post-brexit UK tries to nuke somewhere in the EU What is stopping pre-brexit UK trying to nuke EU? The EU treaties?
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> We’re already running into the limits of physical law in trying to move semiconductor fabrication to smaller and smaller processes, and there are very real and interesting challenges to be overcome before, I think, we can resume anythi
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This seems to be part of a bigger trend. Do you feel a bit of pain? Unacceptable. We got to make it go away. Medicate it until you don't feel a thing. Could your kid scrape a knee on the playing ground? Unacceptable, wrap it all in rub
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Their goal is to be billionaires first. Then they can have the leisure life. You won't become a billionaire by enjoying life on basic income.
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You might want to look at some Chinese mini/industrial PCs Same 8GB/128 GB, but probably lower CPU for £307: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077SLPZ63 There are many different configurations on Amazon/Ebay
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How much electricity is used to power casual games on mobile phones? People should stop playing games, they are contributing to climate change. How much electricity is spent by developers using Electron based apps like VS Code and Slack and
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There is no technical debt in TV production. That alone changes many things. You don't need to care how you arrived at the result or how "maintainable" it is.
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> Now how about the rights and royalties for the movie If you would have bother to read the article you'd have seen they also did that: > Last year, the Department of Justice moved to seize the rights to the Oscar-nominated film
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> are they even trying to claw back any of these millions from the “stars” he lavished? They did: > Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr has turned over jewelry worth $8.1 million to the U.S. Department of Justice that she received fro
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There wasn't a year after the global financial crisis which started in 2007 when one or more major banks were not involved in some major scandals, even after all the bailouts and "we'll behave from now on promises": Libo
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> Mad props if he actually did this, but a bit skeptical here Skeptical of what? Bulletproof vests do stop bullets, there is no crazy claim here. There are many special forces training videos on YouTube where they do get shot in the bu
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> Antibiotics means Fleming The discovery is one thing, the mass production and delivery all over the world quite another. > industrial revolution is not a story of financial engineering Financial engineering in general is invisib
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> brought by electrification, refrigeration, antibiotics, internal combustion engines, public roads, and white goods Most of that stuff required financial engineering. The most developed countries on Earth, with the best of those things,
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The cockpit of the Airbus A220 they bought is very interesting, 5 large touch screens: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/AirBalti...
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Umami, that umami texture...
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GitLab was hosted on Azure just fine for a long period, before moving off recently for optics reasons.
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7 looks like Vista. 10 looks like 8. There are a lot of 10/7 fans around, thus they pin for the Vista/8 look. First you complain loudly "what is this shit". Then when the new one comes which is basically the same as the
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Same old story. When XP came out, people were moaning that it looks like shit and how they wanted the XP kernel, but the 2000 look. When Vista came out, same thing again, all that Aero looks like shit, disable it so that it looks like XP cl
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Why don't they have a mobile cell access point (like a Stingray) that they carry around with the president, for his off the shelf iPhone to connect to? And this access point would connect securely to a NSA proxy or whatever. Or is the

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